FYI: msdu-desc must be multiple of 8.

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue May 27 02:45:24 PDT 2014


Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>> As an aside, if you do manage to crash firmware in this manner, it also
>> takes down the host when it tries to clean up the stale tx buffers.  Possibly
>> that bug is just due to some of my own patches, but might be worth investigating
>> some day when I have more time and a cleaner tree...
>
> At least on my boxes, firmware crashes lead to kernel panics pretty
> often, say 1/3 of the time.  There appear to be lots of ways the
> cleanups are still not happening properly on a firmware crash.

I just merged a patch from Michal which I think is related:

7147a13135ee ath10k: protect src_ring state with ce_lock in tx_sg()

Did that help? If not, any chance to get more info? I know these kind of
crashes don't usually provide much information, but even small hints
help.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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